Gaius Sabucius Maior Caecilianus was a

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senator who held a series of positions in the imperial service. His service was capped with the suffect consulship in 186 with

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as his colleague. From the name of his grandson C. Sabucius Maior Plotinus Faustinus, who set up an inscription in his memory, it is clear his ''gentilicum'' is "Sabucius Maior". "Sabucius" is a rare

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'' nomen'' (Anthony Birley provides two other known individuals of that '' gens''), suggesting his origins lay in Italy and not one of the provinces.Anthony R. Birley, ''The Fasti of Roman Britain'', (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), p. 216 An inscription recovered in Rome documents the ''

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'' of Sabucius. His earliest recorded offices were administrative posts following the

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ship. Next was his service as a '' juridicus'' in

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c. 172–175, which was followed by the prefecture of the ''

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'' c. 176–179. Birley dates his next offices, governorship of

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to c. 180–183, and

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of Achaea to 184/185.

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